Spa really sucks the performance!

[russvox]

Great update, But man does Spa really make the GPU puff.

8:00am hot lap and I get stutter on around 25% of the circuit, on a graphics setting that I can run at any other circuit with up to 22 AI and get a smooth 60Fps, morning , noon or evening

Will there be a little more optimisation on this does anyone think?

Also has anyone noticed that even with it turned off... you cant seem to completely turn off depth of field?

[Chazz Ranger]

Ya, Spa looks and plays amazing, but ditto on the performance drop. My replays look like slideshows.

[russvox]

Ha ha, I guess its all the bloody trees!

[KuBr0]

hmmm. Have same performance as on other maps, everything cranked up to the max @ 1920x1080. Did play a race yesterday with laferraris, 17x, i was starting 17th and on the start, with lots of smoke, no stutter at all

[MAJEPHTIC]

I confirm performance drops on certain parts of the track. Haven't tested with AI yet, but driving alone on maxed settings, some parts of Spa drop my FPS from 60 to 35 - 40. I can imagine the effect is worse with AI, gotta try that. The only graphics setting I had to reduce were the realtime reflections, I use static ones now, which is fine to me. When on ultra, the game runs at 19 FPS for me, compared to 60 with static ones. Killer-feature! ^^

By the way, they have already said that there will be optimization in general and bugfixes before release. So I guess they'll optimize Spa.

[SmithDoc]

WhiteWolf eredeti hozzászólása:

I confirm performance drops on certain parts of the track. Haven't tested with AI yet, but driving alone on maxed settings, some parts of Spa drop my FPS from 60 to 35 - 40. I can imagine the effect is worse with AI, gotta try that. The only graphics setting I had to reduce were the realtime reflections, I use static ones now, which is fine to me. When on ultra, the game runs at 19 FPS for me, compared to 60 with static ones. Killer-feature! ^^

By the way, they have already said that there will be optimization in general and bugfixes before release. So I guess they'll optimize Spa.

it's unfortunate the cars all look so much better with real time reflections. they appear brighter.

[tcpl]

It's the ultra shadows. They murder my FPS in the heavily wooded Spa areas. Setting the shadows down a notch gave me a gigantic FPS boost.

[Pingus]

0xc0ffee eredeti hozzászólása:

It's the ultra shadows. They murder my FPS in the heavily wooded Spa areas. Setting the shadows down a notch gave me a gigantic FPS boost.

Can definitely confirm that. Gave me 10 more fps switching from Ultra to High. Disabling PP effects gave minor boost (1-2 fps). Anti-aliased shadows will kill us.

[russvox]

Ahhhh, shadows, I dint think. Is ultra shadows a higher setting than before the update?

[russvox]

Is it best to change the adaptive vsync in Nvidia control panel?

[AV ON]

Shadows and reflections are the fps killers. With shadows at high and reflections on low (yeah sucks but still dont look so bad) I can run 24 car races at Spa with little fps drop, smooth 60 once the field spreads out a bit.

[Talkie Toaster]

I find the further away from the start/finish line I get the higher FPS I get, then when I start to approach it again the FPS starts to drop.

Shadows are definitely the culprit for me.

[Tripokaridos]

A help would be great :) , I have 780TI with i5 3570, 1920x1080p , i get 60 fps locked most of the time. Only with over 12 cars or at SPA i get 30 fps locked. What i have to lower to get 60 fps locked all the time without loosing any eye candy ???
On beta i lower the cubemaps from 6 to 2. and i get 60 fps Now what i have to lower ?
Thanks for the help

[davifernandeslima]

Babis Madentzo eredeti hozzászólása:

A help would be great :) , I have 780TI with i5 3570, 1920x1080p , i get 60 fps locked most of the time. Only with over 12 cars or at SPA i get 30 fps locked. What i have to lower to get 60 fps locked all the time without loosing any eye candy ???
On beta i lower the cubemaps from 6 to 2. and i get 60 fps Now what i have to lower ?
Thanks for the help

put shadow quality in high instead of ultra.

[Talkie Toaster]

Babis Madentzo eredeti hozzászólása:

A help would be great :) , I have 780TI with i5 3570, 1920x1080p , i get 60 fps locked most of the time. Only with over 12 cars or at SPA i get 30 fps locked. What i have to lower to get 60 fps locked all the time without loosing any eye candy ???
On beta i lower the cubemaps from 6 to 2. and i get 60 fps Now what i have to lower ?
Thanks for the help

I have a 3570K and 780 Superclocked and get much better FPS than that!

You can max pretty much everything apart from smoke (I set to low/medium) and reflections need turning down a bit, the reflections are by far the biggest FPS killer and there's not really much visual difference by turning them down. Try turning shadow quality down for better FPS @ Spa also.

I usually sit at a locked 87 with a full grid on most tracks, Spa goes as low as like 45 though and one of the Italian tracks, can't remember which.

[davifernandeslima]

incidentaly, i´ve tried the noords mod, and i can confirm the graphics performance is quite better, even with the new settings.
sorry to be off-topic OP, just to mention. Spa is the heaviest track indeed